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• Vermont's Vehicle Inspections Are Changing. Here's What Drivers Need To Know dlvr.it/QPsnk7 https://t.co/gwQT5RbonS

  17-04-2018 22:21 via twitter.com
  
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• LISTEN: Lizards And Malaria: Norwich Senior Recognized For Research dlvr.it/QPsnrF https://t.co/cjFNnBBTHD

  17-04-2018 22:21 via twitter.com
  
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• No charges for police following Montpelier shooting review

  17-04-2018 20:40 via vtdigger.org
  Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan, center, with Col. Matthew Birmingham, left. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger
  The Vermont Attorney General’s Office will not file charges against the police officers involved in a fatal shooting in January on the grounds of Montpelier High School.
  Police shot and killed Nathan Giffin, 32, of Essex, following a nearly hour-long standoff with police. Giffin had fled to the grounds of the high school after allegedly robbing the Vermont State Employees Credi
  
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• Judge lets Sawyer charges stand for now; his attorneys pledge appeal

  17-04-2018 20:33 via vtdigger.org
  Jack Sawyer is greeted by defense attorney Kelly Green as he appears in Vermont Superior Court in Rutland on Feb. 27, 2018. Pool photo/Glenn Russell/Burlington Free Press
  RUTLAND – A Rutland judge has denied a motion from attorneys for Jack Sawyer, deciding against dismissing the four felony charges against him for lack of probable cause, including the offense of attempted aggravated murder.
  The decision by Judge Thomas Zonay follows a ruling last week issued by the Vermont Supreme Court t
  
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• Scott vetoes bill regulating children’s toxic exposures

  17-04-2018 20:03 via vtdigger.org
  Gov. Phil Scott. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger
  Gov. Phil Scott on Monday vetoed legislation designed to give the commissioner of health more authority to regulate toxic chemicals in children’s products, calling it redundant and constitutionally suspect.
  Scott said in his veto message that S.103 “will jeopardize jobs and make Vermont less competitive for businesses.” He offered to work with lawmakers to retool it. “We have a path forward to work together to enact t
  
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• Jewish Community of Greater Stowe hosts author Anastasia Goodman, April 24

  17-04-2018 16:54 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Jewish Community of Greater StoweApril 13, 2018
  Stowe – On Tuesday, April 24th at 2pm the Jewish Community of Greater Stowe (JCOGS) presents author Anastasia Goodman in a discussion of her books Loose Ends and The Sasha Perlov Mystery Series.
  Anastasia Goodman is a Russian-born author who left the Soviet Union as a toddler to resettle along New York City’s beach communities. She loves her adopted country but remains tied to her former life in Russia returnin
  
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• Sanders statement on Syria

  17-04-2018 16:47 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Sen. Bernie SandersApril 13, 2018
  Contact:Josh Miller-LewisOffice of Sen. Bernie [email protected]
  Burlington – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement after President Donald Trump announced the United States launched strikes against Syrian targets:
  “It is Congress, not the president, which has the constitutional responsibility for making war. The international community must uphold the prohibition against the use
  
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• Green Up Day, always the first Saturday in May, is May 5th, 2018

  17-04-2018 16:34 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Green Up VermontApril 13, 2018
  Contact:Melanie PhelpsGreen Up [email protected]
  Montpelier – Green Up Day is on its way! Always the first Saturday in May, Green Up Day this year is Saturday, May 5th. A Vermont tradition since 1970, Green Up Day is a statewide event when over 22,000 volunteers come together to remove litter from roadsides and public spaces. 2020 will mark Green Up Day’s 50th Anniversary!
  “Green Up Day epitomizes t
  
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• Vermont Technology Alliance Lunch & Learn session April 19 features Vermont health tech innovators

  17-04-2018 16:25 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — Vermont Technology AllianceApril 13, 2018
  Contact:Jeff CoutureVermont Technology [email protected]
  Burlington – The Vermont Technology Alliance is presenting a Lunch & Learn session featuring a panel discussion with leaders from Vermont tech companies that are providing services and products for the health and medical fields, Thursday April 19 from noon to 2 p.m. at the Vermont Community College in Winooski. Panelists will describe their businesses and how
  
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• LaunchVT announces 2018 cohort

  17-04-2018 16:22 via vtdigger.org
  News Release — LaunchVTApril 13, 2018
  Contact:John Antonucci, Executive DirectorLaunchVT802-863-3489 ext. [email protected]
  Burlington – On Thursday LaunchVT announced the eight Vermont startups that will be participating in its 2018 cohort. This is the sixth cohort of startups to come through LaunchVT’s early stage acceleration program and pitch competition. Over the past five years LaunchVT has provided mentorship and over $400,000 in cash and in-kind services to accelerate
  
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• Declining Trust In Media And What It Means For Democracy dlvr.it/QPqYGk https://t.co/PanlkoDxcN

  17-04-2018 15:21 via twitter.com
  
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• Scott administration opposes universal primary care

  17-04-2018 03:24 via vtdigger.org
  Michael Costa, left, fields questions from lawmakers in 2015. Photo by Morgan True/VTDigger
  Gov. Phil Scott’s administration is taking a firm stance against a legislative effort to create a universal primary health care system.
  The administration is opposed to S.53 in part because publicly financed primary care would require new taxes. But that’s only one of several problems, said Michael Costa, deputy commissioner of the Department of Vermont Health Access.
  Costa also says universal
  
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• Prosecutors seek new charges against Sawyer after Supreme Court ruling

  17-04-2018 02:28 via vtdigger.org
  Jack Sawyer is seen in a video interview with the Vermont State Police during a hearing in Vermont Superior Court in Rutland on Feb. 27, 2018. Pool photo/Glenn Russell/Burlington Free Press
  RUTLAND – A Rutland County prosecutor is trying to be bring additional charges against a Poultney man accused of what police say was a foiled plot to cause “mass casualties” at his former high school in Fair Haven.
  Unlike the charges that were initially brought against Jack Sawyer in mid-Feb
  
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• As Sawyer’s release looms, Fair Haven asks ‘What now?’

  17-04-2018 01:57 via vtdigger.org
  Kinder Way Cafe owner Mark Gutel, right, and customer Kevin Durkee, say talk of Jack Sawyer has dominated conversation in town. Photo by Alan J. Keays/VTDigger
  FAIR HAVEN – Mark Gutel said he purposefully has no internet service in his downtown Kinder Way Cafe.
  Without WiFi, he says, customers are encouraged to talk, and for the past two months the dominant topic of conversation has been the case of 18-year-old Jack Sawyer, accused of plotting to shoot up the town’s high school.
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• Vermont talc at center of $117 million contaminated baby powder case

  17-04-2018 01:55 via vtdigger.org
  The top of an old bottle of Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder. Photo by Alf van Beem/Creative Commons
  Pharmaceuticals giant Johnson & Johnson and a company that supplied it with talc from mines in Vermont have been ordered to pay a combined $117 million in damages after a jury found their popular baby powder product contained asbestos that caused cancer.
  Last week, a jury in New Brunswick, N.J., ordered Johnson & Johnson and Imerys Talc America to pay Stephen Lanzo, who says he d
  
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• House rep seeks to make farmers’ plans private

  17-04-2018 01:44 via vtdigger.org
  Rep. Carolyn Partridge, D-Windham, chair of the House Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. File photo by Bob LoCicero/VTDigger
  As lawmakers look for ways to fund hundreds of millions of dollars in water pollution reduction measures, the chair of the House agriculture committee is looking for a way to keep from public view documents the state uses to determine farmers’ compliance with environmental regulations.
  Rep. Carolyn Partridge, D-Windham, chair of the House Committee on Agriculture
  
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• Sanders brings in nearly $1.3 million in first quarter

  17-04-2018 01:15 via vtdigger.org
  Sen. Bernie Sanders, right, raised the most money within the Vermont delegation in the first quarter of 2018. He is up for re-election in November along with Rep. Peter Welch, center.  Sen. Patrick Leahy, left, won election to an eighth term last fall. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger
  WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., led the pack for fundraising in the first quarter of the year, according to campaign finance disclosures filed by Vermont’s congressional delegation wi
  
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• Paul Burns: Affordable for whom? The high cost of Gov. Scott’s ‘Just say no’ agenda

  17-04-2018 01:10 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Paul Burns, the executive director of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group.
  Last month, Governor Phil Scott sent a letter to legislative leaders outlining his opposition to several bills on the basis that they would impose new taxes or fees or somehow impose new costs on Vermonters.
  In his letter, the governor did not elaborate on what any of these bills would actually do. And based on his response to media inquiries about the letter, it’s p
  
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• Rosanne Greco: The F-35 is the wrong fit for Vermont

  17-04-2018 01:05 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Col. Rosanne Greco, USAF (Retired), who spent 30 years on active duty in the Air Force, is a former chair of the South Burlington City Council, and a member of Save Our Skies VT
  On a recent warm sunny morning, I had a beautiful daydream. It went like this: I was sitting on my front porch peacefully gazing at the blue sky when I saw an aircraft rising into the eastern sky, after having taken off from the airport in South Burlington. It was being flown by
  
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• Bob Bick: Are safe injection sites part of the solution to the opioid epidemic?

  17-04-2018 01:00 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Bob Bick, of Shelburne, who is the CEO of the Howard Center in Burlington.Beginning last summer Vermonters seeking medication assisted treatment for opiate use could get access to treatment almost immediately. While there still may be delays in first appointment scheduling, long waiting lists at the treatment centers known as hubs have been all but eliminated.Around the same time, Vermont instituted new policies that limit opiate prescribing and encoura
  
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• Tara Graham: When the unexpected happens, what’s your plan?

  17-04-2018 00:50 via vtdigger.org
  Editor’s note: This commentary is by Tara Graham, MSW, LICSW, LNHA, who is executive director of the Hospice and Palliative Care Program of the VNA of Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties, Vermont’s oldest and largest non-profit home health and hospice agency.
  It’s National Healthcare Decisions Week.Who’s Your Person? What’s Your Plan?
  It’s a simple yet vitally important question all Vermonters over 18 should be able to answer.If you are unable to speak for your
  
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• Ex-trooper settles for $550,000 for triggering PTSD in Bosnian War survivor

  17-04-2018 00:50 via vtdigger.org
  A former Vermont State Police trooper has settled for more than half a million dollars in the case of a Bosnian War survivor who says that she began experiencing PTSD after being wrongfully arrested following a traffic stop.The settlement was reached about a month before a two-week trial in the case was set to begin at the federal court in Burlington.Fata Sakoc, a Bosnian immigrant, filed the lawsuit against trooper Timothy Carlson after being pulled over in March 2010 in Essex while driving hom
  
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